Problems With Benedict XVI and His Teachings

By: Phil Friedl

“Judge that which is just: whether he be one of your country, or a stranger. There shall be no
difference of persons, you shall hear the little as well as the great: neither shall you respect any
man's person, because it is the judgment of God.” 1

Benedict XVI Speech at the White House, 15 April 2008: "In the next few days, I look forward to
meeting not only with America's Catholic community, but with other Christian communities and
representatives of the many religious traditions present in this country. Historically, not only
Catholics, but all believers have found here the freedom to worship God in accordance with the
dictates of their conscience, while at the same time being accepted as part of a commonwealth
in which each individual and group can make its voice heard. As the nation faces the increasingly
complex political and ethical issues of our time, I am confident that the American people will find
in their religious beliefs a precious source of insight and an inspiration to pursue reasoned,
responsible and respectful dialogue in the effort to build a more humane and free society." 2

Pope Alexander XII, Various Errors on Moral Matters, 24 September 1165: “Although it is
evidently established by you that Peter is a heretic, you are not bound to denounce him.”
Condemned 3

What is Liberalism, Page 153: “Yes, the faithful are permitted and even commanded to give a
reason for their faith, to draw out its consequences, to make applications of it, to deduce
parallels and analogies from it. It is thus by use of their reason that the faithful are enabled to
suspect the measure the orthodoxy of any new doctrine presented to them, by comparing it with
a doctrine already defined. If it be not in accord, they can combat it as bad, and justly stigmatize
as bad the book or journal which sustains it. They cannot of course define it ex cathedra, but they
can lawfully hold it as perverse and declare it such, warn others against it, raise the cry of alarm
and strike the first blow against it. The faithful layman can do all this, and has done it at all times
with the applause of the Church. Nor in so doing does he make himself the pastor of the flock
nor even its humblest attendant; he simply serves it as a watch dog who gives the alarm.
Opportet allatrare canes- 'It behooves watchdogs to bark,' very opportunely said a great Spanish
Bishop in reference to such occasions.”

The quote that Benedict XVI is using is not part of Holy Scripture and thus cannot be attempted to
be understood under the, Spiritual Sense and the Accommodated, but only the Literal Sense.4

1. Deuteronomy 1:16-17
2. http://wcbstv.com/papalvisit/pope.benedict.speech.2.701076.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080416.html
http://uvcarmel.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/pope-benedict-xvis-speech-at-the-white-house/
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0408/511885.html
http://www.osv.com/PapalVisitNav/NewsfromNewYorkWashington/TextofPopeBenedictsWhiteHouseLawnSpeech/t
abid/5875/Default.aspx
3. DZ 1105
4. Proper: What the words properly mean and immediately signify. Example, “There was a man whose name was
John.” (John 1:16)

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St. Thomas in the Summa, II-II Q5 A3: “Just as mortal sin is contrary to charity, so is disbelief in
one article contrary to faith. Now charity does not remain in a man after one mortal sin.
Therefore neither does faith, after a man disbelieves one article of faith. I answer that, neither
living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. Therefore we
must conclude that to reject one article of faith is to reject faith itself.”

First error: Modernism

Benedict XVI Speech at the White House, 15 April 2008: “In the next few days, I look forward to
meeting not only with America's Catholic community, but with other Christian communities and
representatives of the many religious traditions present in this country.”

Pope Pius IX, Collection of Modern Errors, 8 December 1864: "Protestantism is

nothing else than a different form of the same true Christian religion, in which it is
possible to serve God as well as in the Catholic Church." Condemned 5

“The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principal concerns of the
Second Vatican Council. Christ the Lord founded one Church and one Church only.
However, many Christian communions present themselves to men as the true
inheritors of Jesus Christ; all indeed profess to be followers of the Lord but differ in
mind and go their different ways, as if Christ Himself were divided. ” 6

This is the first error and heresy he accepts. There is only one Christian religion, the
Catholic Faith!

A Catechism Of Modernism, The Modernist as a Believer, Page42: Q. To be

consistent does it not seem from these principles, that the Modernists should
advocate the truth of every religion? A. Here it is well to note that, given this
doctrine of experience united with the other doctrine of symbolism, every religion,
even that of paganism, must be held to be true. What is to prevent such experiences
from being met with in every religion? In fact they are to be found is asserted by not
a few. And with what right will Modernists deny the truth of an experience affirmed
by a follower of Islam?

A Catechism Of Modernism, The Modernist as a Believer, Page42: Q. In virtue of

what principle do they attribute to Catholics alone the monopoly of “true
experiences?” A. With what right can they claim true experiences for Catholics
alone? Modernists do not deny, but actually admit, some confusedly, others in the
most open manner, that all religions are true.”

If all religions are true than all souls would be saved! But that teaching is contrary to
the Catholic faith! Thus he adheres to heresy!

5. DZ 1718
6. http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-
redintegratio_en.html

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 Pope Leo XIII, On The Unity of the Church, 29 June 1896: “The practice of the
Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the
Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the
Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine
proposed by her authoritative Magisterium. Epiphanius, Augustine, Theodorey, drew
up a long list of the heresies of their times. St. Augustine notes that other heresies
may spring up, to a single one of which, should any one give his assent, he is by the
very fact cut off from Catholic unity. "No one who merely disbelieves in all (these
heresies) can for that reason regard himself as a Catholic or call himself one. For
there may be or may arise some other heresies, which are not set out in this work of
ours, and, if any one holds to one single one of these he is not a Catholic" (St.
Augustinus, De Haeresibus, n. 88).” 7

Heresy: “As a sin heresy consists in the formal denial or doubt by a baptized person
of any revealed truth of the Catholic Faith; as a crime it consists in the outward and
pertinacious manifestation of the sin. Heresy differs from apostasy and schism.
Anyone guilty of the crime incurs excommunication ipso facto, specially reserved to
the Holy See in the internal forum.”8

Second Error: Liberty of Conscience

Benedict XVI Speech at the White House, 15 April 2008: “Historically, not only Catholics, but all
believers have found here the freedom to worship God in accordance with the dictates of their
conscience, while at the same time being accepted as part of a commonwealth in which each
individual and group can make its voice heard.”

Pope Gregory XVI, Indifferentism, 15 Aug 1832: “Now we examine another prolific
cause of evils by which, we lament, the Church is at present afflicted, namely
indifferentism, or that base opinion which has become prevalent everywhere
through the deceit of wicked men, that eternal salvation of the soul can be acquired
by any profession of faith whatsoever, if morals are conformed to the standard of
the just and the honest. . . . And so from this most rotten source of indifferentism
flows that absurd and erroneous opinion, or rather insanity, that liberty of
conscience must be claimed and defended for anyone.”

This is the second heresy he accepts.

Third Error: Indifferentism

Benedict XVI Speech at the White House, 15 April 2008: “As the nation faces the increasingly
complex political and ethical issues of our time, I am confident that the American people will find
in their religious beliefs a precious source of insight and an inspiration to pursue reasoned,
responsible and respectful dialogue in the effort to build a more humane and free society.”

7. http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13satis.htm
8. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 227, Heresy

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 Indifferentism: “The denial that the worship of God and the practice of true religion
is a duty of man. This indifferentism is of varying degrees and expressed in different
maxims: “There is no God”; “Man cannot know if there be a God”; “One religion is a
good as another”; “It does not matter what you believe so long as you act well”; “The
only useful function of religion is to keep the lower classes in order.” 9

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which
we have preached to you, let him be anathema.” 10

Apostasy: “Apostasy from the Faith (a fide) is the act by which a baptized person,
after possessing the true Christian faith, totally rejects it. It differs from heresy and
schism. The abandonment of Christianity by one who, though baptized in the
Catholic Church, has been brought up from infancy in a non-Catholic sect, is not
apostasy in the proper sense. The complete abandonment of the practice of the
Faith is not apostasy, or even a presumption of apostasy. A person is an apostate
whether he joins a non-Christian religion, a Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, or falls into
unbelief, atheism, materialism, agnosticism, rationalism, indifferentism or 'free
thought.' Apostates from the Faith incur excommunication ipso facto, and other
penalties. Penalties are incurred only for the crime of apostasy, not for the sin, i.e.
There must be some external act. Apostates remain subject to the laws of the
Church. 11

St. Augustine, Sermon to the People of Caesaria, No. 6, Catholic Apologetics Page
128: “No man can find salvation save in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic
Church he can find everything save salvation. He can have dignities, he can have the
Sacraments, he can sing 'Alleluia,' answer 'Amen,' accept the Gospels, have faith in
the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and preach it too, but never
save in the Catholic Church can he find salvation.”

Pius IX to the Bishops of Italy, 10 Aug 1863, Catholic Apologetics Page 129: “We
must once draw attention to and reprobate a very grave error with which Catholics
are unfortunately affected; for some fancy that people who have lived in error, and
are strangers to Catholic unity, can attain eternal life. But this is absolutely opposed
to Catholic teaching. We, and you, too, know well that those who labour under
invincible ignorance of our holy religion, yet keep the precepts of the law of nature
graven by God in all men's hearts, who are prepared to obey God, and who lead an
honorable and upright life. For God, who sees distinctly, who searches into and
knows the mind, spirit, habits and thoughts of all men, would never of His supreme
goodness and mercy permit anyone to be punished eternally unless he incurred the
guilt of voluntary sin. But it is also perfectly well known Catholic doctrine that no
one can be saved outside the Catholic Church, and that those who contumaciously
resist her authority and definitions and who obstinately remain separated from the
unity of that Church and from Peter's successor the Roman Pontiff, cannot obtain
eternal salvation.” This is the third heresy he accepts.

9. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 252, Indifferentism

10. Galatians 1:8
11. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 27, Apostasy

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 Proofs that Benedict XVI is a Heretic and Antipope
Antipope: “One claiming to be pope in opposition to a true pope canonically elected. There have
been over twenty five such, ten of them in the 12th century and most of them notoriously false
pretenders.” 12

Heretic: “One who, having been baptized and professing Christianity, pertinaciously rejects or
doubts any article of faith determined by the authority of the Catholic Church.”13

1. There are three types of heresies Benedict XVI held on 15 April 2008 at the White House.
1. Modernism
2. Liberty of Conscience
3. Indifferentism

2. Thus adhering to any heresies incurs excommunication ipso facto, specially reserved to
the Holy See in the internal forum.

3. We can then see that Benedict cannot be the pope for he had a denial of the Catholic
Faith publicly on 15 April 2008 at the White House.

4. Benedict XVI publicly professed heretical doctrine.

1. We can conclude he was not protected by the Holy Ghost.
2. If he were not guided by the Holy Ghost then, he was guided by the devil.
3. We can then conclude that he cannot be the successor of St. Peter.
4. It is the duty and charity of all Catholics to cry wolf and to flee from his obedience.

5. Benedict XVI went a step further and became a apostate. “A person is an apostate
whether he joins a non-Christian religion, a Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, or falls into
unbelief, atheism, materialism, agnosticism, rationalism, indifferentism or free thought.”

6. Those who believe the same ideals or who are obedient to the leader of Antipope
Benedict XVI, also depart from the Catholic Faith, for they also oppose the teachings of
the Church, which are the teachings of Jesus Christ.

7. For Jesus Christ said, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, walketh not in
darkness, but shall have the light of life.” John 8:12

8. The Catechism Of The Council Of Trent, Article 9 “I Believe In The Holy Catholic Church,”
Page 107: “And just as this one Church cannot error in faith or morals, since it is guided by
the Holy Ghost; so, on the contrary, all other societies arrogating to themselves the name
of church, must necessarily, because guided by the spirit of the devil, be sunk in the most
pernicious errors, of both doctrinal and moral.”

12. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 26, Antipope

13. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 227, Heretic

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 9. We must therefore state that Antipope Benedict XVI and his sect are not guided by the
Holy Ghost and subsequently speaks of “the most pernicious errors, of both doctrinal and
moral.”

10. We must finally conclude that Antipope Benedict XVI is not the head of the One, Holy,
Catholic, and Apostolic Church, but Pope Michael!

Is there a Vacancy in the Seat of the Papacy?

There can however be a vacancy in the seat of the Successor of St. Peter. Normally it is not very
long. However, we have (and are) living in the worst history man will ever experience. “For there
shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now,
neither shall be. And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the
sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.” 14 From 1958-1990 there was not a living
successor of St. Peter. Which leads to an innumerable rate of souls perishing to Hell. Proving that
there was a vacancy in the papacy, since the death of Pope Pius XII (1958), David Bawden
coauthored a book, Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century?; which proves
beyond a doubt that we are living in this great apostasy. 15

Dogmatic Canons And Decrees, Pages 245-246: “If, then, anyone shall say that it is not by the
institution of Christ the Lord, or by divine right, that the blessed Peter has a perpetual line of
successors in the primacy over the universal Church, or that the Roman Pontiff is not the
successor of the blessed Peter in this primacy, let him be anathema.”

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, 18 November 1302: “Furthermore, we declare, we proclaim,
we define that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to
the Roman Pontiff.” 16

Catholic Encyclopedia, Popes and General Councils: “A council not only acting independently of
the Vicar of Christ, but sitting in judgment over him, is unthinkable in the constitution of the
Church; in fact, such assemblies have only taken place in times of great constitutional
disturbances, when either there was no pope or the rightful pope was indistinguishable from
antipopes. In such abnormal times the safety of the Church becomes the supreme law, and the
first duty of the abandoned flock is to find a new shepherd, under whose direction the existing
evils may be remedied.” 17
“A layman may also be elected pope, as was Celestine V (1294). Even the election of a
married man would not be invalid (c. "Qui uxorem", 19, caus. 33, Q. 5). Of course, the election of

14. Matthew 24:21

15. There have been five most known antipopes:
John XXIII-II, Paul VI (Antichrist), John Paul I, John Paul II, currently Benedict XVI

Q. How is Paul VI The Antichrist?

A. Antichrist: “A designation of Christ chief antagonist, who will precede his second coming and the end of the world,
and whose activity will be directly connected with a widespread apostasy from the Christian faith. He will be an
individual human personality, marked by utter lawlessness, self-deification, hatred of Christian truth, and rivalry with
Christ through mock-miracles. He will cause the fall of many, but be destroyed by Christ.”
16. http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Bon08/B8unam.htm
17. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04423f.htm

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a heretic, schismatic, or female would be null and void. Immediately on the canonical election of
a candidate and his acceptance, he is true pope and can exercise full and absolute jurisdiction
over the whole Church. A papal election, therefore, needs no confirmation, as the pontiff has no
superior on earth.” 18

St. Cyprian, Catholic Apologetics Page 129: “God is One and Christ is One, His Church is One, His
See is One, founded by the voice of the Lord on Peter. No other altar can be set up, no other
priesthood instituted apart from that one altar and that one Priesthood. Whoso gathers
elsewhere, scatters.”

After reading this previous quote about the perpetual line of successors of St. Peter, Pope
Michael, formerly David Bawden realized that first the papacy needs to be restored. Pope
Michael, was elected on July 16, 1990 (Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) and took the name
Michael, because he had a deep devotion to St. Michael the Archangel. “For our wrestling is not
against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of
this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.” 19
“But at that time shall Michael rise up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of
thy people: and a time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until
that time. And at that time shall thy people be saved, every one that shall be found written in the
book. Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal
wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned 20 shall understand. ” 21
This quote above is to show the reader that Holy Scripture is fulfilled. Those sentences
support the papal claim of Pope Michael, biblically speaking. “A time shall come such as never
was from the time that nations began even until that time.” What worse time is there for the
Church, than a time as the great tribulation? “For there shall be then great tribulation, such as
hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. ” 22 “But I will tell thee
what is set down in the scripture of truth: and none is my helper in all these things, but Michael
your prince.”23 Catholic Commentary: Michael your prince... The guardian general of the church of
God.

St. Michael the Archangel, Guardian of the Blessed Sacrament and of the Pope, Page 30: “Christ
silent and veiled in the Holy Eucharist and Christ visible and speaking to us in the person of the
Pope – these are the two objects of Satan's inveterate hatred and rage. And these are also the
two objects of St. Michael's greatest devotion and solicitude.”

St. Michael the Archangel, Veneration of St. Michael, Page 34: “According to the great St.
Alphonsus Liguori, veneration of holy Angels, and particularly of St. Michael, is an outstanding
sign of predestination. St. Lawrence Justinian says: Although we must honor all the Angels, we
ought to invoke in a very special manner the glorious St. Michael, as the Prince of all the
heavenly spirits, because of his sublime dignity, his pre-eminent office and his invincible power,
which he proved in his conflict with Satan, as well as against the combined forces of Hell. Let all

18. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11456a.htm
19. Ephesians 6:12
20. Catholic Commentary: "Learned"... Viz., in the law of God and true wisdom, which consists in knowing and loving
God.
21. Daniel 12:1,10
22. Matthew 24:21
23. Daniel 10:21

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acknowledge St. Michael as their protector, and be devoted to him, for he cannot despise those
who pray to him...But he guards them through life, directs them on their way and conducts them
to their eternal home.”

Definitions

Heresy: “As a sin heresy consists in the formal denial or doubt by a baptized person of any
revealed truth of the Catholic Faith; as a crime it consists in the outward and pertinacious
manifestation of the sin. Heresy differs from apostasy and schism. Anyone guilty of the crime
incurs excommunication ipso facto, specially reserved to the Holy See in the internal forum.”24

Heretical: “A proposition condemned as heretical is thereby convicted of being directly opposed

to a truth revealed by God.”25

Heretic: “One who, having been baptized and professing Christianity, pertinaciously rejects or
doubts any article of faith determined by the authority of the Catholic Church.”26

Antipope: “One claiming to be pope in opposition to a true pope canonically elected. There have
been over twenty five such, ten of them in the 12th century and most of them notoriously false
pretenders.” 27

Apostasy: “Apostasy from the Faith (a fide) is the act by which a baptized person, after
possessing the true Christian faith, totally rejects it. It differs from heresy and schism. The
abandonment of Christianity by one who, though baptized in the Catholic Church, has been
brought up from infancy in a non-Catholic sect, is not apostasy in the proper sense. The complete
abandonment of the practice of the Faith is not apostasy, or even a presumption of apostasy. A
person is an apostate whether he joins a non-Christian religion, a Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, or
falls into unbelief, atheism, materialism, agnosticism, rationalism, indifferentism or 'free
thought.' Apostates from the Faith incur excommunication ipso facto, and other penalties.
Penalties are incurred only for the crime of apostasy, not for the sin, i.e. There must be some
external act. Apostates remain subject to the laws of the Church. 28

24. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 227, Heresy

25. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 227, Heretical
26. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 227, Heretic
27. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 26, Antipope
28. A Catholic Dictionary, Page 27, Apostasy

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